The Abomination of Desolation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

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among children. In a recent survey by the Alan Guttmacher Institute,
only one third of the adults thought adolescent sexual activity is wrong,
while the great majority of adults thought it was O.K. and, under certain
conditions, normal, healthy behaviour.
A few weeks ago, an item on the news disgusted me utterly. A single
mother celebrated her daughter’s 15 th birthday by inviting twenty of her
friends (all girls of the same age,) and “treating” them to a male
stripper! The stripper not only exposed himself to the girls, but even
fondled them, to the delight of the mother. Both mother and stripper
were charged when the matter became public.
No wonder that the attitude of children towards sex reflects the
distorted opinions of their parents.
One ugly side effect is a presumption among many adolescents is that
sex is an entitlement, an attitude that fosters a break-down of respect
for self and others. A Rhode Island Rape Centre study of 1700 sixthninth
graders found 65% of the boys and 57% of the girls believing it
acceptable for a male to force a female to have sex if they have been
dating for six months. 1
An insight into how teens view sex now is given by Time Magazine, in
a conversation with a 13 year old from Denver. She told Time
Magazine, that she is glad that sex isn’t so taboo now! When she tried
discouraging a classmate from having sex for the first time, the friend
turned to her and said, “My God Shana. It’s just sex!”
The attitude of Governments is even more pathetic. The emphasis
is on “safe sex” rather than on abstinence. In the U.K., it was proposed
that the age of consent for sex should be reduced to 13, in order to
reduce the number of teen pregnancies. It was reasoned that if this was
done, 13 years old children could legally obtain birth control pills, and
the pregnancies among 13-15 years would be drastically reduced!
Homosexuality has now become accepted as a “life style.” Gay pride
parades are all over the place, and Mayors and other officials are
clamoring to attend them. A public TV station in the Kitchener-
Waterloo area broadcast a two hour program featuring a Lutheran
minister, who teaches in a seminary, proclaims that homosexuality is a
1 Time Magazine, June 15, 1998